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Frida, from the Artists family, has just given birth to her third calf - the 101st recorded in Samburu so far this year, already surpassing last year’s total of just 37.
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As it turns out, even giants need their rest. For years, scientists assumed wild elephants barely slept.
Counting a third of Kenya’s elephants in one operation is no small challenge, especially in the vast, trackless expanse of Tsavo, Kenya’s largest protected area. The 48,000 square kilometres must be accurately covered in as short a time as...
This year, Samburu County is celebrating with high leaps and chirps of joy: we have emerged as the top county in Kenya’s national exams! On the shoulders of her teachers and peers sits Monica Lesuyai. After four years of tireless work, Monica...
An ongoing courtroom drama in Uganda is threatening to undermine the nation’s international credibility after a judge ordered three tonnes of seized ivory to be returned to the smugglers who were caught with it. In October last year the...
Monday 3rd March was the inaugural World Wildlife Day, recently established by the UN General Assembly in order to celebrate our wild world and to urge us to step up the fight against wildlife crime in this precarious era. That morning at the...
At around 8:00 on Friday, January 10, 2014, I sat down to the dinner table, starving and exhausted after a long day. As we dished out the servings of stir fry (a treat compared to our usual tomatoes, beans, and rice dish), Nzumu was helping Imran...
Part of our many jobs as interns on the Elephants and Bees Project in Tsavo is to start laying the foundation for larger research questions about our beehive fences, such as, what makes bees happy? In other words, why are some hives or entire farms...
A quarter of a century ago economists, modellers, zoologists and trade experts gathered at the London Zoological Society and, in the face of overwhelming evidence from the forests and savannahs of Africa, the Ivory Trade Review Group pronounced...
Although international trade in ivory has been banned since 1989, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) does not have jurisdiction over domestic trade. Only national legislation can limit trading of ivory within...
This time last year the fresh carcasses of at least 26 elephants that had been killed for their ivory scarred the landscape surrounding Samburu National Reserve in Kenya, where Save the Elephants has its research base. A year on, and these...
The Planets were once among the biggest and widest ranging family in Samburu. More than 35 strong, they were led by an old matriarch named Dunia (Earth, in Swahili) who was estimated to have been born in 1948. The family’s troubles started in...
